Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lismore Demesne, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lismore Demesne
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.19692, -8.09214
- SMR number
- GA108-164----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a SE-facing slope in grassland. Well-preserved oval rath (67m N-S; 55m E-W) defined by two
banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank is visible from N through E to SW; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. The fosse and outer bank only survive from NW through N to NE. There is a causewayed entrance gap (Wth 4.5m) at N. A L-shaped depression in the interior may be the site of a possible souterrain (GA108-064001-).
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 18 January 2018
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Fish-pondunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.